ief time. Later, from 1885 to 1912 , as Harold Bloom, a literary critic and a professor of humanities at the University of Yale writes, Frost took up poultry farming, teaching, and writing poetry ¡§often at night at the kitchen table¡¨ (13). Only after moving to England in 1912, Frost kicked off his literary career after publishing ¡§A Boy¡¦s Will,¡¨ who got a positive review by Ezra pound, the influential modernist writer of the time (Potter 16). In 1916, Frost publishes his new book ¡§Mountain Interval,¡¨ a set of poems starting with ¡§The Road Not Taken.¡¨ Bloom writes in his book that the title ¡§Mountain Interval¡¨ suggests the poems denote, ¡§ pauses in rural landscape to contemplate the isolation, between settlements, activities and memories, as well as between the self and the natural world ¡¨ (30). Therefore, before reading the poem one can expect subtle images and connections between the self and the nature. Now that we have a rudimentary knowledge of the background, and the purveying general mood at the time and the place this particular poem was written, we¡¦ll try to give an objective, personal assessment of the poem. We start here with the title of the poem: The Road Not Taken First, a cursory look at the title tells us that whatever we¡¦re about to read is given to us in retrospect, because of the verb tense ¡§taken.¡¨ Second, we can safely deduce that ¡§Not¡¨ involves a choice that the poet has made. Third, the word ¡§Road¡¨ indicates that there has been some kind of a journey involved. So we proceed with our reading: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Here Frost ¡Vthe speaker in the poem -- introduces his primary metaphor the ¡§two roads.¡¨ He tells us he is at a point in life, where he has to make a decision between the ¡§two roads.¡¨ The time is not very propitious of course, for we know that the speaker is in the ¡§yellow woods.¡¨ Yellow, taken as a figurative language underlines sallow, acerbic lemon-like state. Th

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